Supply chain managing device, supply chain managing method, and supply chain management system

Abstract

Provided are a supply chain managing device, a supply chain managing method, and a supply chain management system that can evaluate a risk to a supply chain with higher accuracy by indicating the risk to the supply chain on the basis of a more appropriate scale.The supply chain managing device includes a risk data obtaining section configured to obtain risk data, a risk degree calculating section configured to obtain a risk degree corresponding to a type of the risk on the basis of the risk data, a scale calculating section configured to obtain a scale as a spatial position suitable for representing the risk, on the basis of the risk degree, and a risk estimating section configured to obtain the risk value at a specified spatial position, the risk value corresponding to the scale.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A supply chain managing device comprising:
 a risk data obtaining section configured to obtain risk data including a relation between a spatial position and a risk value, as data related to a risk affecting a supply chain;   a risk degree calculating section configured to obtain a risk degree corresponding to a type of the risk on a basis of the risk data;   a scale calculating section configured to obtain a scale as a spatial position suitable for representing the risk, on a basis of the risk degree; and   a risk estimating section configured to obtain the risk value at a specified spatial position, the risk value corresponding to the scale.   
     
     
         2 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the risk degree calculating section obtains the risk degree on a basis of a human risk degree as a risk degree with regard to a human and a supply chain risk degree as a risk degree with regard to the supply chain.   
     
     
         3 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 2 , wherein
 the risk degree calculating section obtains the risk degree by representing the human risk degree and the supply chain risk degree by numerical values and calculating a weighted average of the respective numerical values of the human risk degree and the supply chain risk degree.   
     
     
         4 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the scale calculating section obtains the scale according to magnitude of the risk degree.   
     
     
         5 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 4 , wherein
 the scale calculating section obtains the scale on a basis of information concerning a scale input from a user, in addition to the magnitude of the risk degree.   
     
     
         6 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the risk estimating section calculates the risk value corresponding to the scale on a basis of a magnitude relation between the spatial position included in the risk data and the scale calculated by the scale calculating section.   
     
     
         7 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 6 , wherein
 the risk estimating section calculates the risk value corresponding to the scale by decreasing, according to the scale, the risk value included in the risk data, when the scale represents a smaller area than the spatial position included in the risk data, and calculates the risk value corresponding to the scale by increasing, according to the scale, the risk value included in the risk data, when the scale represents a larger area than the spatial position included in the risk data.   
     
     
         8 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the risk estimating section calculates the risk value corresponding to the scale on a basis of a rank set for a user.   
     
     
         9 . The supply chain managing device according to  claim 8 , wherein,
 according to a magnitude relation between a numerical value indicating the rank and a predetermined threshold value, the risk estimating section determines whether to calculate the risk value corresponding to the scale by decreasing, according to the scale, the risk value included in the risk data, or calculate the risk value corresponding to the scale by increasing, according to the scale, the risk value included in the risk data.   
     
     
         10 . A supply chain managing method performed by a processor executing a program recorded in a memory, the supply chain managing method comprising:
 obtaining risk data including a relation between a spatial position and a risk value as data related to a risk affecting a supply chain;   obtaining a risk degree corresponding to a type of the risk on a basis of the risk data;   obtaining a scale as a spatial position suitable for representing the risk, on a basis of the risk degree; and   obtaining the risk value at a specified spatial position, the risk value corresponding to the scale.   
     
     
         11 . A supply chain management system comprising:
 a supply chain managing device configured to obtain a risk value with regard to a supply chain; and   a visualizing device configured to visualize the risk value,   the supply chain managing device including
 a risk data obtaining section configured to obtain risk data including a relation between a spatial position and the risk value as data related to a risk affecting the supply chain, 
 a risk degree calculating section configured to obtain a risk degree corresponding to a type of the risk on a basis of the risk data, 
 a scale calculating section configured to obtain a scale as a spatial position suitable for representing the risk, on a basis of the risk degree, and 
 a risk estimating section configured to obtain the risk value at a specified spatial position, the risk value corresponding to the scale. 
   
     
     
         12 . The supply chain management system according to  claim 11 , wherein
 the visualizing device visualizes the risk value corresponding to the scale.   
     
     
         13 . The supply chain management system according to  claim 12 , wherein,
 for the type of the risk, the visualizing device associates the scale and the risk value corresponding to the scale with each other, and visualizes the risk value.